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I saw a story a few days ago about an album due for release next September.

Tommy Cannon, Little Nell, Salman Rushdie, Kym Mazelle, Pam Dawber (Mindy), Paris Grey, John McArdle (Billy Corkhill), Vince Hilaire, Steve (Waddington, the other permanent member of The Beloved), Diana Ross ("Mary Wilson, Di and Flo"), Bungle..

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 16h

If you count any one of Bungle's three operators it's down to eleven now (current status of Little Neepsie, Chris and Do unknown) We Didn't Start The Fire is on four, Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 3) two, The Intro And The Outro five, John Kettley Is A Weatherman fifteen, Endless Art zero.

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Have during @whydontyoutube.bsky.social research come across a David Suchet crime vehicle entitled Cruel Train, and now the Bob Blackman earworm is unstoppable.

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Well, that was both awful and awe-inspiring. See you all back here next year for Thirty Glorious Years Of It's Wicked! #SwapShop

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The only people to have referred to "President Regan" are Brown Sauce and Heaven 17. #makesuthink #SwapShop

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I was given a 7" of this as a present a few years ago. Of course I was. #SwapShop

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

ALL STAND FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM #SwapShop

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Christ, just get past this interminable bit and to the moment where we can all post "IMPORTANT PARSON". #SwapShop

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sorry, is that Maggie Philbin being "a punk"? #SwapShop

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Noel compiled this so he could show off his full range of accents for any casting directors watching. #SwapShop

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I kind of want to know the story behind this. Is it something they recorded in case a guest fell through late?

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So this is Noel taking the piss out of the children that contribute to a regular feature on his own show and getting his own obsession in in the process. Why did we not see the last 25 years coming? #SwapShop

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A group of small tone-deaf children dressed like the Jam making 1975 pub rock. What could possibly have OH FUCK NOT THIS BIT. #SwapShop

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They wouldn't, as Tarrant and co would had just left to make OTT, but you know what I mean. #SwapShop

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

See, as the other side would put it, *this* is what they want. #SwapShop

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Admirable how they're having to slow down a 37 second Rubik's Cube this far because of how quick it is when the current world record is 2.76 seconds. #SwapShop

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I will say this, the first That's Life! enabled me to write the sentence "the army blow up Colin Crompton's freezer".

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Esther copying Bernard Braden once again.

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

According to her Wiki bio she later formed half of a duo called Little Fix. Is fate following her around? Was she more recently been demoing under the name Chapel Rain?

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A couple of years ago there was a spate of musicians playing one of the big Scottish venues on IG Stories pointing to a backstage poster that read "Beverley Knight plus Rhianna", clearly assuming it was a hilarious misprint.

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is the "Cope taking a shitload of acid and thinking he's sinking into the stage" Teardrop Explodes performance, isn't it? #totp

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I love the idea that #totp viewers would be the target audience for Beckett's Not I.

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Rob Davis Nu-Disco Era starts here. Well, no, really it started with Shake It Down. #totp

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Didn't even reach the top 40.

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Editor's note: despite Keith's entreaties we did not "see you there". #totp

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Slightly different approach to romance compared to the previous song. #totp

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Haines says this was an attempt to rip off Billie Piper's Honey To The B, even if everyone else thought it was All Saints. #totp

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Luke Haines on #totp, as I live and breathe. You'd probably have to go back to Sebadoh for an unlikelier figure to make it onto the show.

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Don't crash the vocals, Jayne. #totp

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

According to setlist.fm Who Feels Love barely survived in their sets past 2000 and not at all after 2001. #totp

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Bit late to this but Craig David's guitarist there is Fraser T Smith who went on to produce and write with everyone* in the mid-10s. #totp (* Adele, Stormzy, Dave, Raye, Tom Grennan, Taio Cruz, that kind, I didn't mean that literally and you're now checking Animal Collective credits)

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Michael Ironyside @davidnaylor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

So, I put this mad bastard's tour through Google Maps (click through the repost and scroll down a bit). 127 gigs 18,400 miles 382hrs of travel. And only about 50 days from the end until he starts it all over again in 2028

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Been musing on the Les Dennis and Dustin Gee sketch in which they "do" Bowie and Jagger's Dancing In The Street and the central gag is they're both essentially OAPs who can't move without zimmer frames and Sanatogen. Bowie was at the time the same age Rihanna is now.

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

@ricardoautobahn.co.uk I regret to inform you that Makings Of A Murderer, having regenerated, is at it again in 2027.

The Makings Of A Murderer Double Jeopardy, featuring the return of Colin Sutton, defying the petrol cost increases with all his theatrical might

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Also this list includes someone called Septimus Prime.

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Becky 'We Have Olivia Dean Now, We Don't Need You Any More' Hill was a semi-finalist on an early series, it says here, and Jordan Gray was on before turning to comedy. Also Jazmin Sawyers who just won Commonwealth gold in the long jump. The singer from Jocasta was a contestant? What?

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Ben Baker @benbaker.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

As an experiment I've recorded a completely updated and reworked audio version of my "Comedy Cash-In Book Book" from a few years ago. If that sounds your sort of thing, it's on Bandcamp now at a highly competitive market pricing. benbakerbooks.bandcamp.com/album/the-co...

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The Comedy Cash-In Book Audiobook Book, by Ben Baker

12 track album

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The greatest and most extraordinary poll of the year has opened. VOTE BUBBLEMEN FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE.

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Alternate cover for Let It Be.

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Why Don't YouTube? @whydontyoutube.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

HOW HAS THIS BEEN ON YOUTUBE FOR THREE MONTHS AND NOBODY THOUGHT TO TELL US, IT'S BEEN WDYT?'S HOLY GRAIL FOR YEARS www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGPA...

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Statutory Right of Entry - Richard Stilgoe

YouTube video by Matt Poole

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Is the caption referencing the Pump Up The Volume performance on The Roxy, which features none of the actual members of M/A/R/R/S (because the two parties involved hated each other)? www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYEi...

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M.A.R.R.S:PUMP UP THE VOLUME [THE ROXY]

YouTube video by Eclectic Generation X

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Harry Pearson's day will come.

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Remember this Oasis single being talked up as a radical post-Britpop reinvention because the drums sound a bit like the Beta Band and one of the many guitar tracks is backwards. #totp

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